@Slava, obviously I hope I'm wrong, but fears are what they are. I have yet to hear anything but equivocation from Trudeau's government on this front, positioned as they are between national and political interests. The report from the industry folks in the room today was very cautious.
Further, I'm not convinced that the new process is designed to enable success as it seems to give a veto to industry-hostile Indigenous groups, and requires consideration of Direct and Upstream GHG emissions based on "science, traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and other relevant evidence".
To me, this is meant to be like the Mackenzie Valley pipeline process - eternally delayed and finally approved only once it was no longer needed.
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